| Date: May 26, 2001 | | Location Pike Creek Hike | | Where: Steens Moutain | ---"We are camped at Page Springs with Lon & Nina and Tim, Elaine, Bob and Connie are in a rented unit at The Steens Mountain Resort. I choose this hike on the recommendation of Larry Brown and because its in Bill Sullivan's new book '100 Hikes Eastern Oregon'."
|  | | looking west accross the Alvord Desert ---"We start hiking at 11:30. Its very hot and we struggle up the old mining road on the south side of the twisting canyon. However we enjoy the many wildflowers, Penstemons, Paintbrush, a pale Lupine and some yellow Balsamroot. We spot the interesting rock formation on the north rim called Neddle Point.
|  | | Needle Point At the one mile point where the trail crosses the creek, Jeanette & Elaine elect to wait, the rest continue. After a ways we start to have thunder and when the rain starts, I say 'turn around'. It rains pretty hard on us and we are soaked by the time we get back to the cars at 2:45. Distance 4.8 miles, cumulative climb 1110 ft.
We make a stop at the town of Fields for milk shakes before driving back to camp."
|  | | a pause for a photo before the rain storm |
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